Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results

Establish Goals (MLR or CCSS or NGSS): (G)
Maine Learning Results
Content Area: Health Education and Physical Education
Standard Label: H. Physical Fitness Activities and Knowledge
Standard: H3 Fitness Activity
Grade Level Span: Grade 6-8
Students participate in physical activities that address personal fitness goals for the health-related fitness components

What understandings are desired?

Students will understand that: (U)
•fitness is important in overall health
•body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength work together in fitness
•there are various cardiovascular training techniques

What essential questions will be considered?

Essential Questions: (Q)
•Why is fitness important in overall health?
•How do body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength work together?
•How is cardiovascular training important to fitness and how does it vary?

What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?


Students will know: (K)
Students will be able to: (S)
•vocabulary: body composition, flexibility, muscular strength, blood pressure, heart rate, fitness, conditioning, cardiovascular, diet, calories
•key factual information: Certain foods boost your metabolism, muscle weighs more than fat, calories contribute to weight gain when consuming more than you use
•sequence and timelines: Meals, exercise, stretching, cool down, water, sleep, training schedule
•describe a healthy lifestyle
•make sense of body composition, flexibility, and muscular strength
•design a meal and fitness plan over a weeks period
•compare body composition and muscular strength
•consider cardiovascular training techniques
•recognize different cardiovascular training techniques

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.